Thread: The drought seems to be getting worse

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

The drought is biting in SE Qld, so I can only imagine how some other places are going.
We recently out in a second tank at Maleny, so we now have 32,000 litres of storage, but the 10,000 litre tank is empty and we will still need to buy water by October if it hasn't rained by then. Its 'Rainy Maleny', sure it will rain soon?
How are we all doing?

Queensland towns face million-dollar water-carting bills if rain stays away

Warwick is as dry as a bats bum, too!

The drought seems to be getting worse

World wide phenomena it seems. For Australia the current synoptic charts show a huge high pressure area south of the Great Australian Bight. This is in fact a summer pattern. WA and Southern states depend on cold fronts / low pressure cells moving in from the Southern and Indian ocean, not so much so for Queensland. The high pressure areas should be much further north at this time of the year, to allow low pressure areas to move over the land.
WA started off late but the South West has had some really good rain, although it has stopped now. The current prediction from BOM suggests much lower rain fall and increased higher temperatures right across Australia for the rest of this year.

Here in Thailand there is also a worsening drought!

Global weather chaos shrivels Asia’s crop production

Global weather chaos shrivels Asia’s cropproduction

In a yearwhen record heat is scorching Europe and the heaviest rain in decades hasinundated parts of the US Midwest, the Asia Pacific region is suffering fromits own maelstrom of extreme weather.

Originally Posted by donh54

Warwick is as dry as a bats bum, too!

Yes, Warwick gets a large mention in the story.

Originally Posted by Old Farang

World wide phenomena it seems. For Australia the current synoptic charts show a huge high pressure area south of the Great Australian Bight. This is in fact a summer pattern. WA and Southern states depend on cold fronts / low pressure cells moving in from the Southern and Indian ocean, not so much so for Queensland. The high pressure areas should be much further north at this time of the year, to allow low pressure areas to move over the land.
WA started off late but the South West has had some really good rain, although it has stopped now. The current prediction from BOM suggests much lower rain fall and increased higher temperatures right across Australia for the rest of this year.

Here in Thailand there is also a worsening drought!

Global weather chaos shrivels Asia’s crop production

Global weather chaos shrivels Asia’s cropproduction

In a yearwhen record heat is scorching Europe and the heaviest rain in decades hasinundated parts of the US Midwest, the Asia Pacific region is suffering fromits own maelstrom of extreme weather.

Did Thailand get the usual wet season rain?

Did Thailand get the usual wet season rain?

No, the SW Monsoon is a complete fizzer! There is very little surface wind, hence no rain bearing clouds. Upper winds are stronger, but all they do is blow towards China! There has been an odd storm both here in Bangkok, and the North, but no substantial rains.

It is a strange pattern. The SW Monsoon seems to be getting deflected away to the North by huge areas of high pressure in the Northern Indian Ocean. There have been excessive rain and floods in Nepal and other areas of the Himalayas, and less rain in parts of southern India.

I remember seeing parts of Bangkok flooded. I once nearly drowned my Vios in a slum there.

Our two 10,000 gal house tanks are 5/6ths full but there is only the two of us.

I am in Brisbane , it is so long since we had any rain my 3X 3000Lit. tanks ran dry last week.
The one out the back I only use for watering the pot plants once a week & the two beside the garage I use to wash the cars & top up the pool. Urban Utilities is too greedy to put water restrictions on yet.
We did a trip to Narrabri travelling through Stanthorpe , Glen Innis , Inverell , Moree to Narrabri in June none of the streams were running & most were dry. The river in Narrabri had islands in it . We go down that way every June for the North West Rally this is the worst I have ever seen it.